Configuring the Cisco WebEx System Parameters

Use this procedure to configure Cisco Unified MeetingPlace for Cisco WebEx.

Restrictions

Your deployment must have one Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing server in the DMZ and one behind your firewall, even if all users will be internal.

Cisco WebEx integration is supported only on specified versions of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 6.0. See the System Requirements for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing.

Before You Begin

You must purchase a contract with WebEx for web conferencing. No Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conferencing licenses are required if you plan a Cisco WebEx-only deployment.

If you have just installed or upgraded your Cisco Unified MeetingPlace deployment, verify that internal and external users can schedule, join, and participate (unless you will have a WebEx-only deployment) in normal Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing meetings.

Verify that your Cisco WebEx representative has configured a site for you on Cisco WebEx.

Ask your Cisco WebEx representative for the following values:

Cisco WebEx SiteID

Cisco WebEx PartnerID

Cisco WebEx Hostname

Cisco WebEx Sitename

Provide your Cisco WebEx super administrator with the following information:

Site administrator username: Any value is legal except for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace administrator user ID.

Site administrator password: Any valid password is permitted.

Site administrator e-mail address: Any value is legal.

One of the following two URLs, where <gateway> represents the fully qualified domain name of the Cisco MCS web server:

Select Yes for Is Sales Center available on your site if you have purchased Cisco WebEx Sales Center. Note: Cisco WebEx Sales Center is not supported in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Release 6.0 Maintenance Release 5 and later.

Select Yes to enable the Cisco WebEx Gateway. The gateway is the component that provides communication between Cisco WebEx and the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace server.

Modifying User Group Default Settings for Cisco WebEx

The default user group setting for web conferencing provider is Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. The default user group setting for Hide Web Conference Provider is Yes. In this procedure, you use the MeetingTime application to modify the default user group settings.

Cisco recommends that you put all users who need Cisco WebEx scheduling capability into one group.

There are two user profile and group profile settings that need to be configured to enable Cisco WebEx integration for users. These are:

Hide Web Conference Provider-Determines whether the end user can choose a web conferencing provider on the scheduling page. It is set to yes by default for all profiles.

Default Web Conference Provider-Determines the default web conferencing provider that will be used for all meetings scheduled by this user. By default, this is set to 0, which represents the standard Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conferencing interface. A value of 1 represents Cisco WebEx.

Cisco WebEx Integration Enabled on Server?

Hide Web Conference Provider

Default Web Conference Provider

Scheduling Behavior

No

Cannot configure this setting in MeetingTime. The value is set to yes by default.

Cannot configure this setting in MeetingTime. The value is set to 0 by default.

User does not have a choice to select a web conference provider on the scheduling page. All meetings take place in the traditional Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conference room.

Yes

Yes

0

User does not have a choice to select a web conference provider on the scheduling page. All meetings take place in the traditional Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conference room.

Yes

Yes

1

User does not have a choice to select a web conference provider on the scheduling page. All meetings are launched as Cisco WebEx.

If you only have Cisco WebEx, use this setting.

Yes

No

0

User gets a choice to select a web conference provider on the scheduling page. The default selection is Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. Meetings are launched based on the web conference provider chosen during scheduling.

Yes

No

1

User gets a choice to select a web conference provider on the scheduling page. The default selection is Cisco WebEx. Meetings are launched based on the web conference provider chosen during scheduling.

Before You Begin

Verify that you have an administrator user ID on the MeetingTime server.

Note: Audio recordings from Cisco WebEx are only supported with combined access. This can be configured from MeetingTime by going to the Configure tab and selecting Port groups > Default access type.

Configuring the Cisco WebEx Site Settings Page

With the exception of the following, do not change settings in the Site Settings page of the Cisco WebEx Site Administration interface:

Check "Allow user to store personal information for joining meetings and call-back teleconference check box" in order to allow users to save their phone numbers when attending a Cisco WebEx meeting.

If Single Sign On (SSO) is enabled on your Cisco WebEx system, check Cisco WebEx site settings and disable "Require strict password for user accounts" and "Do not allow reuse of the last # passwords" prior to completing this integration.

Customizing Post-Meeting Web Page Settings

By default when a WebEx type web meeting has ended, the meeting close webpage directs to www.cisco.com.

The webpage URL can be modified by the system administrator.

Procedure

Sign in to the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Server as an administrator.

Open Windows Explorer, and browse to C:\Program Files\Cisco Systems\MPWeb\HTML

Locate the file called bu.html.

Copy the file to another location.

Right-click and select Edit, to edit the file using Notepad.

Search for self.location.href, and replace http://www.cisco.com with your specified URL.

Close and save the file called bu.html.

Accessing Cisco WebEx Administration Help

You can download or view the Cisco WebEx administration online help from the Cisco WebEx home page.

Procedure

Sign in to Web Conferencing.

Click Admin.

Click WebEx Configuration.

Click here at the bottom of the page.

Sign into Cisco Web Ex as an administrator.

On the left, click Help.

Using Cisco Unified MeetingPlace with Cisco WebEx

See the Online Help for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 6.1.